I am so glad Toribash is now Pay to Play. And I am grateful most of the games are PC only, since I use a Mac.

Productivity meltdown averted.

Thanks for the link loquacious.posted by Dataphage at 6:54 AM on October 19, 2006

Sometimes, I doubt your commitment to Fun Motion.posted by Afroblanco at 6:58 AM on October 19, 2006

Sometimes, I doubt your commitment to Fun Motion.
posted by Afroblanco at 9:58 AM EST on October 19 [+] [!]

Synchronicity. I just watched Donnie Darko again last night. Pleast get out of my head. It's crowded enough in there already.posted by Pastabagel at 7:18 AM on October 19, 2006

I got dangerously addicted to a Trials Bike game a few years back and now I can't find it - I think it was similar, but not identical, to the one listed here (which seems to be inaccessible at the moment so I can't find out for sure)...which is also the one that comes up repeatedly on a Google search.

The game I knew was out of Scandinavia, and opened up with a monnnnnnster truck-type voice going 'sunday sunday sunday' or something like that, and the game was simple, but very fluid and physically realistic, and fun.

Does anyone remember it or have a link? Chances are it was on Metafilter that I found it, in factposted by Flashman at 7:23 AM on October 19, 2006

Here you go, Flashman. I too was dangerously addicted at one time. Although I could never quite figure out why he was yelling MOOONNDAAY THE DRUG DAAAAY!posted by afx237vi at 7:38 AM on October 19, 2006

jontyjago beat me to it...posted by afx237vi at 7:39 AM on October 19, 2006

X-moto is fun.

Also, Neverball. (This is a self-link.)posted by rlk at 7:40 AM on October 19, 2006

No not at all, thanks - I remember seeing that one at the time as well, the Finnish(?) one was similar, but better in some hard to define, but essential, way. I'm sure it was somebody's Friday Flash contribution, c. 2002, but a search turns up nowt.posted by Flashman at 7:42 AM on October 19, 2006

(This is [not] a self-link)? :)

Link it, rlk. Topical self-links in comments are encouraged.

Especially if said self-links give me more sweet, sweet games.posted by loquacious at 7:44 AM on October 19, 2006

I like to read that sentence with a bad french accent.posted by Skygazer at 7:47 AM on October 19, 2006

Am I missing something, or its that Trial Bike game virtually unplayable?

I prefer this bike game from the last physics FPP. It kinda slow-motion or something, and the physics is quirky, but its plenty o' fun when you get the lay of the land.posted by MetaMonkey at 7:53 AM on October 19, 2006

MetaMonkey: The review of that game basically agrees with you with the words "Trials by Red Lynx has to be the single most masochistic gaming experience of my young life. The game is hard. And not just hard, super superlative descriptor hard."

Personally I can't stand the games at TeaGames. Either they're painfully slow and excruciatingly unplayable or they're Flash-based monster resource hogs that bring my older machine to a crawl. In either case, they're loathsome to me because there's no reason for a simple Flash object - even a physics game - to be that complex and CPU-unfriendly.posted by loquacious at 8:00 AM on October 19, 2006

Oh yeah jontyjago, that *is* the one I meant (now that I installed the plugins and tried it out) - thanks. MetaMonkey, just keep at it for a bit - the controls become very intuitive after a while, like flying a helicopter.posted by Flashman at 8:03 AM on October 19, 2006

Clearly there were no physicists here.

The only thing wrong with that video is that it cuts out right before the mom of the house comes out and tears them both new gaping bungholes.

Other than that the, unbridled screams of two utter morons in stereo is quite lovely.posted by loquacious at 8:04 AM on October 19, 2006

It's not *that* hard, if I can play it!posted by Flashman at 8:05 AM on October 19, 2006

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